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Civil War
Third Regiment Infantry
Other troops had also fallen back to this point distant about a mile from Centreville and about 6 o'clock P. M. Captain Alexander, of the corps of Engineers, directed me, by order of General McDowell, to take the general arrangement of the troops at that point in my own hands, he suggesting, as a good line of defense, between a piece of woods on the right and one on the left, the line facing equally towards the enemy, who were supposed to be coming either on the Union of the Blackburn road. I immediately formed that line as best I could of the regiments nearest the position, placing the men in the ravines, and the artillery, as far as possible, on the hills in the rear of the infantry.
American Civil War
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